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News about People
| Actor Matthew Modine Has Mormon Heritage |
| People Weekly reveals that actor Matthew Modine
grew up in a large tight-knit Mormon family in Loma Linda,
California, and talks about Modine's early life as the son of a
drive-in movie theater operator. Modine's career as an actor took off
with his 1984 role as a Vietnam vet in "Birdy." He recently played
the lead on the made for TV movie "Flowers for Algernon." |
| LDS Scout Honored For Saving Scout Leader |
| LDS Scout Jonathan L. Payne will be honored doday by
the Utah Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for his life-saving
heroics last year when he saved his scout leader from drowning in the
Green River. Payne will receive an award from the foundation at a
ceremony at the Little American hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. He
is then scheduled to enter the LDS Church's mission training center
later today. |
| SLC Teen Gets Notice For Supporting Gay-Straight Club |
| Time Magazine reviewed the prolifieration of
gay-straight clubs at high school's nationwide, including in Salt
Lake City, where the majority LDS population finds their existence
troubling. Yet when one Salt Lake City high school banned such a
club, LDS Church member Keysha Barnes, 18, objected, and signed-on as
a plaintiff against the school board. |
| BYU professor takes genealogy to new level, plans to genotype the world |
| BYU Professor of Molecular Biology Scott Woodward has
started a new multimillion dollar project that could aid genealogists
and others studying populations. Woodward is studying the genes of
different populations around the world through a process called
genotyping. By developing a database of genotypes of different
populations, it should be possible to compare an individual's
genotype with the database and determine which population(s) the
person comes from. |
| LDS Newspaper Editor Wanda Bush Dies |
| Wanda Bush, mother of two children,
grandmother of 10, news editor for the Alabama Journal and member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died on Valentine's
Day ending a long romance with life. Wanda was born in 1926 in
Robertsdale, a sizeable immigrant community near the ports of Mobile
and New Orleans. Wanda love the Gulf Coast and recalled a dream
while recently lying in the hospital. "I caught a hell of a lot of
fish," she told daughter Kathryn Bush Kimball. |
| Weber State Mascot, LDS RM, Broke Neck But Not Spirit |
| Days ago, 22-year-old Weber State University Mascot
and Olympic hopeful Matt "The Cat" Maw broke two vertebrae in his
neck as he tried a triple back tuck and landed on his head during
practice. Doctors fear that he will probably never walk again.
However, Maw's outlook remains optimistic. |
| LDS Eagle helps eagle spread her wings |
| Shane Bench, a 15-year-old ninth-grader from
Holladay, Utah has spearheaded an Eagle Scout service project that
has given a new home to Nizhoni, a female golden eagle. Shane raised
$2,023 in money and materials from neighbors, friends and members of
the LDS Cottonwood 14th Ward, Big Cottonwood Stake. The 12 foot
wide, 12 foot deep and 8 foot high mew houses the approximately-20
year-old Nizhoni, who sports a cap of golden brown feathers on the
back of her head and chocolate brown feathers over the rest of her
body. |
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